"Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark—for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies." - Animal Farm

Saturday, February 13, 2010

"Gay" Marriage

A lesbian couple went to a courthouse in Buffalo, New York to get married and were denied. Then one of them asked for a male to get married to her. A gay man, Ed, stepped up and the tied the knot right there.

I actually read a piece in some Salt Lake City rag years ago about how gay people can get married, just not to each other, and they're asking for the creation for a new right, special rights, blah blah blah. So much goddamn hair-splitting. This here is, indeed, the perfect illustration of how ridiculous our marriage laws are. So is (straight man?) Brian Feldmen's plan to wed a stranger.

What if gays and lesbians started doing dual marriages of this sort? One gay man would marry a lesbian, and then the two partners would marry each other, so then they were all married? Granted a whole host of rights would be missing--anything having to do with, you know, their actual significant other--but their legal marital status would at least reflect their aspirations. That's something, right? Right?